The coroner has released the name of the person thrown from a car on Highway 25 in Greenville County Friday morning.

Luis Francisco Bucato Jr., 23, of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, according to the coroner.

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Bucato died of blunt force trauma and his death has been ruled an accident, the coroner said.

Troopers said Bucato was not wearing a seat belt.

The wreck was reported on Highway 25 and Gap Creek Road at 8:39 a.m.

WYFF News 4's Allyson Powell talked with former River Falls Fire Chief David Embree, who said the vehicle was heading south on Highway 25 when it hydroplaned and flipped.

She said three people were in the car at the time. Bucato was ejected.

This is the same stretch of road where officials said they saw an uptick in accidents after repaving last May.

The South Carolina Department of Transportation put down a coating of a substance to try to make the roads safer, but it ends just before Gap Creek Road.

Embree said that's not far enough. "It needs to go farther north because it stops right there. If we could have possibly gotten southbound lanes to the state lines it would have been safer," Embree told Powell.

SCDOT gets the coating from China, so if a decision is made to apply more, officials say it could take a while.